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All anybody cares about in this fucking country, he thought, is money.

— Robert Stone A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

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"It's a Walt fucking Disney true life adventure, sweetheart," he told her. "That's all it is."

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"If somebody ever tells you, Geraldine, that they need you, you tell them to buy a dog."

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